http://www.7-west.org/2009/06/25/news-that-bites/ The Virginia General Assembly from the perspective of 7 West. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:25:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 http://www.7-west.org/2009/06/25/news-that-bites/comment-page-1/#comment-2015 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:58:02 +0000 http://www.7-west.org/?p=954#comment-2015 My very favorite Fitzgerald quote. Applicable to so many people one meets in this line of work.

]]> http://www.7-west.org/2009/06/25/news-that-bites/comment-page-1/#comment-2014 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:36:47 +0000 http://www.7-west.org/?p=954#comment-2014 Actually, I think Fitzgerald’s “the rich are different from you and me” is at least a close second in the AmLit Vapid Sweepstakes. But he redeemed himself with this: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made . . . .”

]]> http://www.7-west.org/2009/06/25/news-that-bites/comment-page-1/#comment-2013 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:30:19 +0000 http://www.7-west.org/?p=954#comment-2013 This is really sweet. But we are a LOT younger than Ted Stevens. And I agree with Steve about the Fitzgerald quote, which for a girl who went to college in St. Paul is pretty much like admitting to heresy.

]]> http://www.7-west.org/2009/06/25/news-that-bites/comment-page-1/#comment-2011 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:18:44 +0000 http://www.7-west.org/?p=954#comment-2011 Very sorry to hear that Kris is leaving. She’s one of the General Assembly’s class acts.
BTW: Fitzgerald’s “no second acts in American lives’ may be the single stupidest sentence written in the English langauge for which I am not personally responsible. The amazing thing about American lives is how many of them have third, fourth and even fifth acts. In a country with a divorce rate of 50%, there’s a lot of second acts.

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